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SC’s involvement in Women’s Suffrage National Monument

By Mike Switzer
Published August 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT
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Kimberly Wallner, executive vice president of the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation
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Kimberly Wallner, executive vice president of the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation

Our next guest’s organization has launched a nationwide “Monumental Ideas” initiative inviting individuals to share perspectives on how women’s history should be represented. Their goal is to build the first monument on the National Mall in Washington DC dedicated to American Women's History. Mike Switzer interviews Kimberly Wallner, executive vice president with the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation and she joins us by phone from her office in Greenville, SC.

Kimberly Wallner (left) with her mother, Diane Gluck
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Kimberly Wallner (left) with her mother, Diane Gluck

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Mike Switzer
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.
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